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That all the persons aforesaid, between the ages of 18 and 45, now in the service, shall be retained during the present war with the United States, in the same regiments, battalions and companies to which they belong at the passage of this act, with the same organization and officers, unless regularly transferred or discharged, in accordance with the laws and regulations for the. government of the army : Provided, that companies from one State, organized ac&inst their eonsent.^exnresaed at the time. n / ?i ?w . / i with regiments or battalions from another State, shall have the privilege* of being transferred to organizations of troops, in the same arm of servioe, from the States in whioh said companies wer? raised; and the soldiers from one State, in companies from another State, shall be allowed, if they desire it, a transfer to organizations from their own States, in the same arm of the service. Sxc. 3. Be it farther enacted, That at the expiration of six months from the first day of April next, a bounty of one hundred dollars in a six per oent. Government bond, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issnc, shall be paid to every non-commissioned officer, musician, and private who shall then be in service, or in the event of his death, previous to the period of such payment, then to the person or persons who would he entitled by law to receive the arrearages of his pay; but no one shall be entitled to the bounty herein provided, who shall at any time, during the period of sis months nest after the said first daj of April, be absent from his command without leave. Sec. 4. lie it further enacted, That no person shall be relieved from the operation of. this act by reason . of having been heretofore discharged from the army, where no disability now exists j nor Bball those who have furnished substitutes be any loDger exempted by reason thereof: Provided, That'no person, heretofore exempted on ac count of religious opinions and who has paid the tax levied to relieve him from service, shall be required to render military service under this act. ? Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all white aide residents of the Confederate States,"between the ages of 17 and 18 and 45 and 50 years, shall enroll themselves at SQbh times and places, and under such regulations, as the President may prescribe, the time allowed not being less than thirty days for those east, and sixty days for those west of the Mississippi river, and any person who shall fail ta enroll himself, without a reasonable excuse therefor, to.be judged of by the President, shall be placed iu service in the field, for the war, in the same manner as though they were between the ages of eighteen and forty-fire : Provided, that the persons mentioned in this section shall constitute a reserve for State defence and detail duty, and shall not be required to perform service out of the State in which they reside. Sec. 6.. That all persons required by tbe 5th section of this act to enroll themselves, may within thirty days after the passage thereof east of the Mississippi river, and within sixty days, if west of said river, form themselves into voluntary organizations of companies, battalions or regiments, and eleot their own officers; said organizations to oonfotm to the existing laws; and, having so organized, to tender their services as volunteers during the war to the President; and if such organizations shall furnish proper muster-rolls, as now organized, and deposit a copy thereof with the enrolling officer of their district, which shall be equivalent to enrollment, they may be accepted as minute men for service in such State, but in no event to be taken out of it. Thoso who do not so volunteer and organize, shall enroll themselves as before provided; and may, by the President, be required to assemble at convenient places of rendezvous, and be formed or organized into companies) battalions and regiments, under regulations to be prescribed by him ; and shall have the _ u. i ? rigut IU uiuct iut?n uuui^auj auu a^uutuuu officers; and all troops organized under this act for State defence,, shall be entitled, while id actual service, to the same pay and allowance as troops now in the field. Sec. 7. That any person who shall fail to attend at the place of rendezvous as re'quired by the authority of the President, without a sufficient excuse, to be judged of by him, shall be liable to be placed in service in the field for the war, as if he were between the ages of 18 and 45 years. Sec.' 8. That hereafter the duties of provost and hospital guards and clerks, and of olerks, guards, agents, employees or laborers in the Commissary or Quartermaster's Departments, in the Ordnance Bureau, and clerks and employees of navy agents, as also in the exeoution of the enrollment act, and all similar duties, shall be performed by persons who are within the ages of IS and 45 years, and who, by the report of a Board of army surgeons, shall be reported as unable to perform active service in the field, but capable of performing some of the above- said duties, specifying whioh, and when those persons shall have been assigned to those duties as far as practicable, the President shall assign or detail to their performance such bodies of troops or individuals required to be enrolletPunder the 5th seotion of this act, as may bo needed for the discharge of such duties : Provided, that persons between the ages of 17 and 18 shall be assigned to those duties : Provided, further, that nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the President from detailing artizans, mechanics, or persons of scientific skill, to perform f indispensable duties in tbo departments or bureaus herein mentioned, j Sec. 9. That any Quartermaster or As; sistant Quartermaster, Commissary or Assisi tant Commissary (other than those serving with brigades or regiments in the field,) or officers in the Ordnance Bureau,' or Navy Agents, or Provost Marshal, or officers in the coDsoript service, who shall hereafter employ or retain in his employment any persons in any of their said departments or bureaus, or in any of the duties mentioned in the 8th section of this act, in violation of the provisions hereof, shall, on conviction thereof, by a court martial or military court, be cashiered; and it shall be the duty of any department or district commander, upon proof, by the oath of any credible pcrsoD, that any suoh officor has violated this provision, immediately to relieve such officer from duty; and said com- 1 manders shall take prompt measures to have lnm tried for such offeioe ; and any commander as aforesaid failing to perform the duties enjoined by this section, shall, upon being duly convicted thereof, be discharged from the service. IiN REGARD TO EXEMPTIONS. ' 1 Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That all laws granting exemptions from military service be, and the same are hereby repealed, and hereafter none shall be exempted except the following: 1. All who shall be held unfit for military service, under the rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. ' * .2. The* Vice-President of the Confederate States, the members and officers of ' Congress and of the several State Legisla- ' tares, and such other Confederate and State officers as the President, or the Governor of the resDeotive States, mav certifv to be ne- , 1 ' ? cessary for the proper administration of the Confederate or State Governments, as the ease may be. 3. Every minister of religion authorized , to preach according to the rules of his church, and who, at the passage of this act , shall be regularly employed in the discharge j of his ministerial duties f-superintendents , and physicians of asylums for the deaf and dumb and blind and of the insane; one j editor for each newspaper being published , at the time-of this act, and such employees j as said editor may certify on oath to be iu- , dispensable to the publication of suoh j newspaper; the public printer of the Con- , federate and State Governments, and such , journeyman printers as the said public prin- , ter shall certify, on oath to be indispensable ( to perform the public printing; one skilled \ apothecary in each apothecary store, who { was doing business as suoh on the 10th day { of October, 1862, and has continued said ( business, without intern/ission, since that j period ; all physicians over the age of thir- c ty years, who now are, and for the lastsev- ( en years have been, in tho actual and regu- t lor T\rnf>t.!on nf t.hoit" nprtfoaoinn Vi'nf flm farm "* t physician shall not include dentists; all ? presidents and teachers of colleges, theolog- ? ical seminaries, aeademies and schools, who f have been regularly engaged as such for two ? years next before the passage of this act: ( Provided, that the benefit ef this exemption shall extend to those tcaohers only ( whose schools are composed of twenty stu- j dents-or more. All superintendents of pub- ^ lie hospitals, established by law before the ( passage of this act, und such physicians ( ! and nurses therein as snch superintendents ( shall certify, on oath, to be indispensable to the proper and efficient management r thereof. * 4. Thero shall be exempt one person as owner or agriculturist on each farm or plantation upon which there are now, and were on the first of January last, fifteen able- r bodied field hands, between the ages of six- ' t teen and fifty, upon the following conditions : J 1. This exemption shall only be grauted ' in cases in which there is no white male ( , adult on the farm or plantation not liable to ( milifrtPU c<?roioo nnr nnlnoa fKn . J , .VV, ?v.? , lug the exemption was, on the 1st of JaDU- ' ary, 18G1, either the owner and manager or ' overseer of said plantation ; but in no ease ' shall more than one person be exempted for * one farm or plantation. 2. Suoh person shall first execute a bond, ( payable to the Confederate States of America, in such form and with such security, | and in such penalty, as the Secretary of , War may prescribe, conditioned that he will ( deliver to the Government at some railroad ( depot, or such other place or places, as may be designated by the Secretary of War, within 12 months next ensuing, 100 pounds of baoon, or, at the election of the Government, its equivalent in pork, and 100 pounds , of nett beef (said beef to bo delivered on ^ foot), for each able-bodied slave on said , farm or plantation, within the above said ages whether said slaves are used in the field or not, which said bacon or pork and beef shall be paid for by the government at I CUV JJUVVO UA^a UJ tuc VUtUUilSOlUU^lO VI ! the State under the impressment act: Provided, that when tho person thus exempted shall produce satisfactory evidence that it has been impossible for him, by the exercise of pnper diligenoe, to furnish the amount of meat thus contracted for, and leave an adequate supply for tho subsistence of those living on the said farm or plantation, the Secretary of War shall direct a commutation of the same, to the extent of two-thirds thereof in grain or other provisions, to be delivered by such person as aforesaid at equivalent rates. o. Such person shall further bind himself I to sell the marketable surplus of provisions 1 and grain now on hand, and which he may raise from year to year while his exemption continues, to the government or to the fam: ilies of soldiers at prices fixed by the commissioners of the State under the impressment act: Provided, that any person ex: empted as aforesaid, shall be entitled to a : credit of 25 per cent, on any amount of i meat which he may dpliver within three | months from tho passage of this act: Provided, further, that persons coming within the provisions of this exemption shall not i be deprived of the benefit thereof by reason of having been enrolled since the 1st of Fobruary, 1864. 4. In addition to the foregoing exemptions, the Secretary of War, under the direction of the President, may exempt or detail suoh other persons as he may be satisfied ought to be exempted on acoount of publio necessity, and to insure the production of grain and other provisions for the army and the families of soldiers. He may also grant exemptions or details on such terms as he may-presorib<r, to such overseers, farmers or planters as he may bo satisfied will be more useful to the country in the pursuits of agriculture than in the military service : Provided, that such exemption shall cease whenever the farmer, planter or overseer shall fail diligently to employ, in good faith, his own skill, capital and labor, exclusively in the production of grain and provisions to be sold to the government and families of soldiers, at prioes not exceeding those fixed at the time for like artioles by the commissioners or the state under the impressment act./ 5. The president, treasurer, auditor and superintendent of any Railroad oompany engaged in transportation for the govern* ment, and such officers and employees.thereof as the president or superintendent shall certify on oath to be indispensable to the effioient operation of said railroad: Provided, that the number of persons so exempted by this" aot on any railroad shall not exceed one person fqr each mile of said road, in actual use for military transportation; and said Exempts shall be reported by name and description, with tbe names of any who may have left tbe employment of said Oompany, or who may oease to be indispensable. 6. That nothing herein oontained shall be construed as repealing tbe aot approved April 14th, 1863, entitled an aot to exempt contractors for carrying the mails of the Confederate States, and tbe drivers of post coaches and hacks, from military service : Provided, that all the exemptions granted ander this act shall only continue whilst the persons exempted are actually engaged in their respective pursuits or occupations. Sec. y. That the President be and he is hereby authorized to grant details, under general rules and regulations to be issued From the War Department, either of persons between 45 and 50 years of age, or from the army in the field, in all oases tfhere, in his judgment, justice, equity and necessity require such details, and he may revoke suoh orders of detail whenever he thinks proper: Provided, that the power nerein granted to the President to make deails and exemptions shall not be construed o authorize the exemption or detail of any rontractor for furnishing supplies of any cind to tho government by reason of said sontrqet, unless the head or secretary of the lepartmont making suqb contract shall cer,ify that tho personal services of such contactor are indispensable to the exeoution of laid oontract: Provided, further, that when tny such contractor shall fail, diligently and aithfully, to proceed with the execution of such contract, his exemption or detail shall :ease. Sec. 12. That in appointing local boards )f Surgeons for the examination of persons iable to military service, no member composing the same shall be appointed from ;he county or enrolling district in which ihcy arc required to make such examina;ion. Treasury Notice as to Funding under Act of February 17,1864. Tori BTTT>V TIp-DA llTXfVWT P fi A \ jl v v/> y Richmond, Febraary?20, -1864! Notice is hereby given to all holders of [Yeasury notes, Dot bearing interest, that ;hey may exchange the same immediately, >t the office of the Treasurer, Assistant rreasurer, or of any Depositary, for certifijates, w.hicli will entitle them to four per jent. bonds; and that the said privilege will continue until the 1st of April ensuing, it'ter which, all notes over the denomination if five dollars can be funded only at 66} jeots to the dollar, except one hundred lollar notes, which after that date, are no longer receivable for public dues, and can inly bo funded at an additional reduction if ten per oent. per month. The certificates issued, together with the bonds for which they may bo exchanged, ire receivable for taxes of tho year 1864 at the full amount expressed on the face withlut interest, and arc not subject to the tax imposed for that year on other bonds and credits. The short time allowed should admonish ill holders promptly to present the notes, md not risk the chance of exclusion by the pressure whioh will occur at the end of the month of March. (Signed,) C. G-. Memminqer, Secretary of the Treasury. The Funding Act. \N ACT TO FUND, TAX AND LIMIT THE CURRENCY. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the holdjra of all treasury notes above the denomiaation of five dollars, not bearing interest, shall be allowed until the 1st day of April, LSG4, east of the Mississippi river, and ua;il the 1st day of July, 1864, west of the Mississippi river, to fund the same, and, jntil the periods and at the plaoes stated, the holders of all such treasury notes shall be allowed to fund the same iu registered bonds, payable twenty years after their iates, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent per annum, payable on the 1st day )f January and July of each year. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is heresy authorized to issue the bonds required For funding provided for in the preceding jection, aud until the bonds oan be prepared, be may issue certificates to answer the surpose. Such bonds and certificates shall )e receivable without interest in payment of ill government due# payable in the year LS64, except export and import duties. 3. That all treasury notes of the denomilation of one hundred dollars, not bearing interest, whioh shall not be presented for ( funding under the provisions of the first 1 seotion of this act, shall from and after the first day of April, 1864, east of the Mississippi river, and the 1st day of July, 1864, west of the Mississippi river, oease to be receivable in the payment of public does, and said notes, if not so presented at that time, shall, in addition to the tax of thirty three and one third cents imposed in the 4th seotion of this act, be subject to a tax of ten per cent, a month until so presented, whioh taxes shall attach to said note wherever circnlated, and shall be deducted from the face of said notes whenever presented for paynjent or for funding, and said notes shall not be exchangeable for the new issue of Treasury notes provided for in this act 4. That on all said treasury notes not funded or used in payment of taxes at the dates and places prescribed in the 1st seotion of this aot, there . shall be levied at said dates and plaoes a tax of thirty three and one third cents for every dollar promised on the face of said notes, said tax shall attach to said notes wherever oircnlated, and shall be .collected by deduoting the same at the Treasury, its depositories, and by the tax collectors, and by all Government officers receiving the same, whenever presented for payment, or for funding, or in payment -of Government dues, or for postago, or in exchange for new notes as hereinafter provided; and said treasury notes shall be fandable in bonds as provided in the first seotion of this act, until the 1st day of January, 1865, at the rate of sixty six and two thirds cents on the dollar. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasary, at any time between the 1st April east, and the 1st July, 1864, west of the Mississippi river, and the 1st January, 1865, to substitute and exchange new I treasury notes for the same, at the rate of i sixty six and two thirds cents on the dollar, ] provided that notes of the denomination of ] one hundred dollars shall not be entitled to < the privilege of said exchange; provided, ! further., that the right to fund any of said < treasury notes after 1st day of January, 1 1865, is hereby taken away; and, provi' 1 ded further, that upon all such treasury < uotes which may remain outstanding ou the 1st January, 1865, and which may not be 1 exchanged for new treasury notes as here- < in provided, a tax of one hundred per cent. \ is hereby imposed. . 5. That after the 1st day of April, uext, \ all authority herefore given to the Secrc- 1 tary of the Treasury to issue treasury notes, ' .shall be and is hereby revoked; Provided, < the Seoretary of the Treasury may, after 1 that time, isspe new treasury notes, in such ' forms as he may presoribe, payable ttfo 1 years after the ratification of a treaty of 5 peace with tho-United States, said new is- : c?n., fn Ua ronolrnkl. In n.nmnnt of .11 nnK 1 UbO l*V l&wwivaviv lU Y J UJVtfUU vl Oil ^uw lie dues except export and import dues, < and to be issued in exchange for old notes, ] at the rate of two dollars of the new for three dollars of the old issnes, whether said 1 old notes be surrendered for exchange by I the holders thereof, .or be reoeived into the : | treasury under the provisions of this aot'; t and the holders of the new notes or the old < notes, except those of the denomination of one hundred dollars, after they are reduced i to sixty six and two thirds cents on the dol- j lar, by the tax aforesaid, may convert the ? same into call certificates, bearing interest ] at the rate of four per cent, per annum, and i payable two years after the ratification of t a treaty of peace with the United States, i unless sooner converted into new notes. 6. That to pay the expenses of the Gov- 2 eminent not otherwise provided for, the ? Seoretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue six per cent, bonds, to an * amount not exceeding five hundred millions I of dollars, the nrin'ciDal and interest wher<f- " of shall be free from taxation, and for the I payment of the interest thereon, the entire c nett reoeipts of any export duty hereafter ^ laid on the value of all cotton, tobacco and c naval stores, which shall be exported from a the Confederate States, and the nett pro- ^ ceeds of the import dutio9 now laid, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay annually the interest, are hereby specially u pledged, provided that the duties now laid upon imports are hereby pledged, shall hereafter be paid in specie, or in sterling exchange, or in the coupons of said bonds. <! 7. That the Secretary of the Treasury is 1 hereby authorized, from time to time, as the t: wauts of the Treasury may require it, to 0 sell or hypothecate for Treasury notes said S bonds or any part thereof, upon the best terms he can, so as to meet appropriations by Congress, and at the same time reduce a and restriot the amount of the circulation P in Treasury notes within reasonable and ri safe limits. * 8. The bonds authorized by the 6th section of this aot, may be either registered or 81 coupon bonds, as tho parties taking them c mou nnd tfiAtr mfttf hfi PTnlionnad fnr B MiHj VIVWJ UUVi mMMVJ ??' VWWMMM^WU ?V? each other under such regulations as the? 1 Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. e They shall be for one hundred dollars, or some multiple of ono hundred dollars, and ^ shall, together with the coupons thereto attached, be in such form and of such authen- v tication as the Secretary of the Treasury J may presoribe. The interest ?hall be payable half yearly, on the 1st of January and a July in each year?the principal shall be p payable not less than thirty years from their date. tl 9. All call certificates shall be fundable, 01 and shall be taxed in all respects, as is pro- P vided for the Treasury notes, into which s< they are convertible. If not converted before the time fixed for taking the Treasury P notes, such certificates shall, from that time, "1 bear interest upon only sixty-six and two- 01 third cents for every dollar promised upon their face, and shall be redeemable only in 8? new Treasary notes at that rate, but after the pasaage-of this act, no call certificates te shall be issued until after the 1st day of oi April, 1864. ej 10. That if any bank of deposit shall gi giVe its depositors the bonds authorized by pj the 1st section of this act in exchange for oi heir deposits, and specify the same on the jonds by some distinctive mark or token) ;o be agreed upon with the Secretary of the Treasury, then the said depositor shall he mtitled to reoeive the amount of said bonds in Treasury notes bearing no interest and mtstanding at the passage of this act, Provided, the said bonds are presented before the privilege of fnndiog said notes at par shall cease, as herein presoribed. II. That all Treasury notes heretofore issued of the denomination of five dollars shall continue to be receivable in payment }f public dues, as provided by law, and fundable at par under the provisions of this lot, until the 1st of July, 1864, east, and until the 1st of October, 1864, west of the Mississippi, but after that time they, shall be subject to ar tax of thirty-three cents on every dollar promised on the face thereof, said tax to attach to said notes wherever . ? % n , t i> *_t_l oirouiatea, ana saia no tea to De mnaaDie and exchangeable for ne*? Treasury' notes, us herein provided, subject to the deduction of said tax. 12. That any State holding treasury notes, received before the times herein, fixed for taxing said notes, shall be allowed until the 1st day of January 1865, to fund the same in six per oent. bonds of the Confederate States payable twenty years after date, and the interest payable semi-annually.? But alL treasury notes reoeivod'by any State after the time fixed for taxing the same, as aforesaid, shall be held to have been diminish id by the amount of said tax. The discrimination between the notes subject to the tax. and those not subject shall be left bo the good faith of each State, and the oertifioate of the Governor thereof shall in sach case be conclusive. 13. That treasury notes heretofore issued, bearing interest atrthe rate of seven dollars and thirty oents on the hundred dollars per annum, shall no longer be received in payment of publio dues bat shall be deemsd and oonsidered bonds of the Confederate 3tates, payable two years after a ratification )f a treaty of peace with the United States bearing the rate of interest speoified on their face, payable on the 1st January in eaoh and ivery year. 14. That the Seoretary of the Treasury be, and he is authorized in case the exigenjies of the Government should require it, to pay the demand of any public creditor trhose debt may be contracted after the passage of this aot, willing to receive the same n a certificate of indebtedness to be issued )y said Secretary in such form as he may leem proper, payable two years after a ratiication of a treaty of peace with .the United States, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, ind transferable . only by special endorse' * - i? A- 1? !L. J I menc under regulations to do prescrineu oy the Secretary of the Treasury; and said certificates shall be exempt from taxation in principal and interest. 15. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to-increase the number of depositories so as to meet the requirements of this ict, and with that view to employ saoh of the banks of the several States as he may leem expedient. ? 16. The Secretary of the Treasury shall 'orthwitb advertise this act in such newspacers published in the several States, and by inch other means as shall secure immediate publicity, and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall each cause it 1 o be published in general orders for the nformation of the army and navy. 17. The 42d section- of the aot for the issessment and collection of taxes approved yfay 1st, 1863, is hereby repealed. 18. The Seorefary of the Treasury is here>y authorized and required, upon the ap- 1 jlioation of the holder of aoy oall certificate ?which by the 1st section of the act "to j irovide for the funding and farther issue i if Treasury notes," approved March 23d, ' .863, was required to be "thereafter deem- I id to bo a bond"?to issue to such bolder i . bond therefor upon the terms provided < >y said act. * 1 I The Tax BilL ? in Act to Lay Additional Taxes for the i Common Defence and Support of the 1 Government. ? Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate .. States of America do enact, That in addi- * ion to the taxes levied by the ^Act to lay * axes for the common defence and to carry c n the Government of the Confederate 1 Itates," approved 24th of April, 1863, 1 here shall be levied, from the passage of ^ his Act, on the subjects of taxation here- ? fcer mentioned, and collected from every 11 erson, copartnership, association or corpo- 1 ation liable therefor, taxes as follows, to 0 rit: f I. Upon the value of property, real per- 11 onal and mixetd, of every kind and des- * ription, not hereinafter exempted or taxed t a different rate, five per cent: Provided, 2 'hat from this tax on the value of property 11 mployed in agrioulture, shall be deducted ' he value of the tax in kind delivered there- h rom, as assessed under the law' imposing 8 on/] /] a) ? n AtaA/1 in ill A Annan m nni Pka fl Ij BUU UCUVC1GU IU bUO V7U>OIllUiUUb J. I Ifided, That no credit shall be allowed be- P ood five per cent.. * s II. On the value of gold and silver wares ^ ad plate, jewels, jewelry and watches, ten er cent. - ~ III. The value of property taxed under ^ lis section shall be assessed on the basis * f the market value of the same, or similar * roperty in the neighborhood where assesid in the jrear 1860, exoypt in cases where tnd, slaves, cotton or tobacco have been 0 nrohased since the 1st day of January, 862, in whioh case' the said land, slaves itton and tobacoo so purobased, shall be A messed at the price actually paid for the ime by the owner. Sec. 2. On the value of all shares or invests held in any bank, banking company ei : association, canal, navigation, importing, 1 cporting, insurance, manufacturing, tele- le raph, express, railroad and dry dook com- b< inies, and all other joint stock companies li< ; every kind) whether incorporated or not) <l< five per oent. The value of property taxed under this seotion shall be assessed upon the basis of the market value of such property in the neighborhood where assessed, in such ourrenoy as may be iu general use there, in the purchase and sale of such property, at the time of assessment. Seo. 3. I. Upon the amount of all gold and silver coin, gold dust, gold or silver bullion, whether held by the banks or other corporations or individuals, five per cent.; and upon all moneys held abroad, or upon the amount of all bills of exchange, drawn therefor on foreign countries, a tax of five per cent.; such tax upon money abroad to be assessed and collected according to the value thereof at the place where the tax is paid. II. Upon the amount of all solvent credits, and of all bank bills, and all other papers issued as ourrenoy, exclusive of noninterest bearing Confederate Treasury notes, and not employed in a registered business, the income derived from which is taxed, five per cent. Sec. 4. Upon profits made in trade and business, as follows: I. On a|l profits made by buying and selling spiritdotis liquors; flour, wheat, corn, riee, sugar, molasses or syrup, salt, bacon, pork, bogs, beef or beef oattle, sheep, oats, hay, fodder, raw 'hides, leather, horses, males, boots, shoes, ootton yarns, wool, woolen, ootton o* mixed oloths, hats, wagons, harness, ooal, iron, steel or nails, at any time between the'1st of Jannary, 1863, and the first of January,-1865, ten per cent., in addition to the tax such profits as income under the. "Act to lay taxes for the common defence and carry on the Government of the Confederate States," approved April 24, 1863. II. On all profits made by buying and selling money, gold, silver, foreign exchange, stooks, notes, debts, credits or obligations of any kind, and any merchandize, propertyjor effeots of any kind, not enumerated in the preceding paragraph, between the times named therein, ten per cent., in addition to the tax on snoh profits as income, Jl lL. * -i -C i J - uuuer inn aut aiureeaiu. III. On the amount of profits exceeding twenty-five per cent., made daring either of the years 1863 and 1864, by any bank or banking company, insurance, canal, navigation, importing and exporting, telegraph, express, railroad( manufacturing, dry dock or other joint stock company of any description, whether incorporate or. not, twentyfivo per cent, on sach excess. Sec. 5. The following exemptions from taxation ander this Act shall be allowed, to wit: % - ' ' I. Property of each head of a family to the value of five thondred dollars; and for eaoh minor child of the family to the farther valae of one hundred dollars; and for eaoh Son actually engaged in the army or navy, or wfio has died or been killed in the military or naval servioe, and who was a member of the family when he entered the service, to the further value of five hundred dollars. . II. Property of the widow of any officer, soldier, sailor or marine, who may have died or beeh killed id the military or naval servioe, or whore there is no widow, then of the family, being minor obildren, to the value of one .thousand dollars. III. Property of every officer, soldier, sailor or marine, actually engaged in the military or naval servioe, or of such as'have been disabled io suob service, to the value of one thousand dollars: Provided, That the above exemptions shall not apply to any person whose property, exclusive of household furniture, shall be assessed at a value exceeding one thousand dollars. IV. That where property has been injured or destroyed by the enemy, or the owner thereof has been temporarily deprived of the use or ooenpanoy thereof, or of ;he means of cultivating the same, by reaion of the presence or proximity of the inemy, the assessment on suoh property nay ber reduced in proportion to the damtge sustained by the owner, or the tax astessed thereon may be reduced in the same . a <? i? i . it . - ? auo oj tae?gi8cnoc collector, oa satisiacto y evidenoe submitted to him by the ownsr or assessor. Sec. 6. That the taxes on property laid or the year 1864 shall be assessed as. on he day of the passage of this Aot, and be lae and collected on the first day of J one lext, or as soon after as practicable, allowog an extension of ninety days West of the Mississippi River.. The additional taxes in inoomes or profits for the year 1863, leved by this Aot, shall be assessed and ooleoted forthwith; and the taxes on inoomes. ir profits for the year 1864 shall be assesed and collected according to the provisoes of the tax and assessment Acts of .863. Seo. 7. So mnch of the Tax Aot of the !4tb day of April, 1863, as levies a tax on ncomes derived from property or effeots on he amount or valoe of wbioh a tax is leved by this Aot, and also the first section of aid Act, are suspended for the year 1864, nd no estimated rent, hire or interest on irop?rty or credits herein taxed ad valorem, hall bo assessed or taxed as inoomes, oner the Tax Aot of 1863. Sec. 8. That the tax imposed by this Lot on bonds of the Confederate States erotofore issued, shall in no case exceed tie interest on thej?me, and snob bonds, rhen held by or for minors, or lnnatics, shall 'l e exempt from the tax in'all oases where J tie interest on the same shall not exoeed ( ne thousand dollars. Suspension of the Writ of Habeas 1 Corpus. BILL TO SUSPEND THE PRIVILEGE OP THE | WRIT OP HABEAS CORPUS IN CERTAIN ( CASES. * . . Whereas, the Constitution of the Confed- , rate States of Ameroia provides, in artiole , section 9, paragraph 3, that ?tbe privige of the writ of habeas corpus shall not * 3 suspended, unless when, in case of rebel- 8 on or ihvasion, the pnblio safety may re- t lire it j" and whereas the poirqr of bus- ] pending the privilege of saidwnt, as reeog* ' nized in said article 1, is vested solely in the Congress, which is the exclusive judge of the necessity of such, suspension; and wfihreasj in the opinion of the Congress, the public safety requires the suspension of said writ in the existing ease of the invasion of these States by the armies of the United States; and whereas, the President has asked for the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and informed Congress of conditions of public danger which render the suspension of the writ a measure proper for the public defence against invasion and insurrection ; now, therefore, 1. That daring the present invasion of the Confederate States, the privilege of the . writ of habeas corpus be and the same is' hereby suspended-; but such suspension shall apply only to the easel of person* arrested or detained hy order of the President, Secretary of War, or the general officer commanding the Trans- Mississippi Military Department, by the authority apd under toe control of the President It is hereby declared that the purpose of Congress in the' passage of this act is to provide more effectually for the public safety, by (suspending the writ of habeas corpus iu tho following j .. cases, and no other:" - V I. Of treason, or treasonable efforts or r combinations, to subvert the Government of the Confederate States. , . II. Of conspiracies to overthrow the Government, or conspiracies to resist the lawful authority of the Confederate States. lit Of combining to assist the' enemy, fit of conmonicatiag intelligence to the enemy, or giving him aid and comfort. lY. Of conspiracies, preparations and attempts to inoite servile ineorrectioq. V. Of desertions or encouraging desertions, of harboring deserters, add of attempts to avoid military servicej Provided, that in cases of palpable wrong and oppression by any subordinate officer, upon any party who does not legally owe military service, his superior offioet shall grant prompt relief to the oppressed party, and tho subordinate shall be dismissed from office. VI. Of spies and other emissaries of the enemy. ' VII. Of holding correspondence or intercourse with the enemy, without neooadty, and without the permission of the Confederate States. VIII. Of unlawful trading with, the eue? my and other ofienoes against the laws of the Confederate States, enacted to promote their success in the war. IX. Of conspiracies, or attempts to liberate prisoners of war held by the Confederate States. X. Of conspiracies, or attempts , or .preparations to aid the enemy. XI. Of persona aiding or inciting others to abandon the Confederate cause, or t<f resist the Confederate States; or to adhere to . the enemy. XII. Of unlawfully burning, destroying or injuring,, or attempting to barn, destroy or injare any bridge or railroad, or telegraph line of communication, or other property, with the. intent of aidingthe enemy. XIII. Of ^reasonable designs to impair the military power of the Government by destroying or attempting to destroy the vessels or arms, or munitions of war,'or'arsenals, foundries, workshops, or other property of the Confederate States. Sec. 2. The President shall cause proper officers to investigate tbe cues of all persons so arrested or. detained, id order that they may be discharged if improperly detained, unless they can be speedily tried in-the dae course- of lair.' Sec. 3. Thfct daring tbe snspensioc aforesaid, no military , or other officer shall be compelled, in answer to any writ of habeas corpus, to appear in person, or to retnrn the body of any person detained by him by the authority of the President, Seoreta?y of War or tho general officer commanding the trans-Mississippi Department; but upon the oertilicate, under oath, of tbe officer having charge of any one so detained, that such person is detained by him aa? prisoner under the authority aforesaid, further proceedings under the wrii'ojf Habeas corpus, shall immediatelycease and remain suspended so long-as this act shall continue in force.. Sec. 4. This act shall coutinue in fbroe for ninety days after the next meeting of Congress and no longer. Disinfectant.?-At -a late meeting of the British Scientific Association at Nerw castle, Dr. Richardson said the best way to destroy organic poison in rooms was to place iodine in a small box with a perforated lid. Daring the epidemic of the smtt!I>^oxx in London, he had seen this used with great benefit. Dr. Hurray Thompson said charcoal was now used in hospitals in. India with beneficial, effect. It was hung up in bags from the rafters. <? > Important Arrival.?-We liaye the gratifying intelligence of tbe arrival at a SoQthom port, within the last tew days, ot an extremely valuable and mueh'" needed cargo on Government account. A few more snob cargoes would place the country on a different footing from that whioh it now occupies, and relieve the anxious feare now entertained by many. Worthy op Imitation.?In this age of money loving and money getting, it ia pleasant to chroniole generous acts. The Eon. Charles MoJSeth, Mayor of Charlesion, has recently furnished from his plauta- , don, for gratuitous distribntion to soldiers' families, and the poor of Charleston, some ifteen thousand dollan worth of provisions. MSf There is not at present a single cotton spindle in operation in the city of lowall . The mills whioh formerly gave employment to about thirty thousand females, ire now as silent as the iomb. JfiTThe State of North Carolina is dktsibuiog cotton cards among the. faualies of oldiers at five dollan per pair. Necessioos wives and mothers of aoldien have the peferenoe. ' ' " . r-i '